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P. V. EGBERT.

I SGRAPER. I No. 406,093. Patented July 2, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER VAN-ESS EGBERT, OF GENOA, NEW YORK.

SCRAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of letters Patent No. 406,093, dated July 2, 1889.

Application filed October 31, 1888- Serial No. 289,669. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER VAN-Ess EGBERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Genoa, Cayuga county, New York, have invented an Improved Implement for Cleaning Stables, Barns, and Walks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention consists in the peculiar structure of my implement, which is a scraper, which I operate either by pushing or drawing it over the surface to be cleaned, as will be apparent as I describe it.

Figure 1 is a view from above of my implement. Fig. 2 is a front elevation showing its blade and mode of attaching its handle. Figs. 3 and 3 are variations of the shape of the edges of the blade. Fig. 4 is a side elevation; and Fig. 5 shows cross-sections of the forks that connect the handle to the blade.

In the figures, a is the blade, made of a single piece of sheet metal (steel) set to the handle I) by the connecting arched forked piece (I, which has in its middle a socket c, in which is inserted the handle I), and whose ends are flattened to fit the transverse diameter of the blade at, and by which T-shaped The handle is a plain round piece of wood, which fits into the socket c, in which one end of it is made fast.

The blade a is set at right angles to the handle I) and piece (1, andeach of the four sides or edges it has is designed to be used as a scraping or cleaning edge, and its preferred size is sixteen inches long by four or five inches wide. plied by either a drawing or a' pushing in The edges a and d. are ap clearing snow oif of walks, or stables of the discharges of cattle and horses, and such like uses, the ends a" being useful in narrow places. To give rigidity to the forked pieces or arms they are made oval or angularly fiat, as indicated, and with or without the ribs d on the fiat sides of the arms.

Ourvededges maybe made, as indicatedin Fig. 3, or inclined edges, as in Fig. 3, and thus more cutting-edges are produced in the blade for use in cleaning grass and weeds out of walks, and like uses, without disabling the implement of its original and main use, which is a barn and stable and floor cleaner.

Sheet-steel is the best material for my implement, which I make only of metal, that rolled for saw-blades being an advantageous form of metal.

A desirable shape of the, arms of the piece (1 is shown; but they may be of other shapes.

My cleaning implement or tool has been proven by use to be very effective and convenient. It is also desirablei'n moving grain on a thrashing-floor. All else is believed to be apparent in the drawings What I claim in the above-described intplement is The described scraper, consisting of the blade at, the forked arms d, provided with transverse extensions at their ends by which the arms cl are fixed to the blade, the arms being united at their junction by the handleholder 0, which is provided with the socket b, in which the handle 12 is fixed, as set forth. PETER VAN-ESS EGBERT. Witnesses:

S. J. PARKER, I. P. VANKIRKE. 

